Uses cross national data to examine how economic, political and educational structures affect both the participation of women in the labor force and their employment in more powerful and well rewarded positions, and assesses the relevance of comparative studies of women as a status group to national public policy considerations. (Author/JM)

Innovative programs need to address themselves to staff development and organizational change. Teachers need to be involved in continuing education and incorporation of educational personnel into new programs, and also in producing structural transformations in the system. Paper prepared for the Chicago, 1975 Convention of the American…

A number of issues have arisen from the publication of "Becoming Modern" by Inkeles and Smith. This paper raises each issue in turn and attempts to support the major assertions of that study. Included are such issues as the reasons for studying the individual, the role of personality characteristics, the personal features of modernity,…

Black novelist John Killens expresses perceptions and feelings about community college teaching in light of his experiences as a Black writer in the United States. Killens discusses influences on his writing, and his views of art in society and contemporary politics. (DMM)

Teachers and principals have a lot of power, but the power of teachers is different as the students over which they have power are more vulnerable. Teachers should acknowledge their power and the opportunities they have been given to open doors for children. (MD)

Analyzes how and why upper-middle-class children did not receive reading remediation during a summer program designed for this purpose. Explores reasons that people may resist (covertly or overtly) while simultaneously helping to sustain a particular set of social relations, institutional practices, and ideological legitimations. (CMG)

Applies a socio-psychological approach to social systems to examine the community mental health center (CMHC) movement, traces the historical evolution of the task mandate and the professional and organizational structures of the CMHCs to their legislative origins and considers possible future directions of the CMHC movement. (Author/JM)

This study describes an emerging sociological prototype and examines the degree to which urban stresses and conditions are absent or present and the manner in which they reveal themselves. (Author/RK)

Analyzes the erosion of America's faith in public education as a cultural and social element in building a sense of national community, calling for a mobilization to insist that the public schools concentrate as they never have before on the task of building a sense of civic cohesion among all people of the country. (JM)

Paper presented at the Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages Convention, Washington, D.C., February 1972. (DD)

Reviews two new books that argue for the political implementation of cultural pluralism in the United States: Peter Schrag's The Decline of the Wasp," and Michael Novak's The Rise of the Unmeltable Ethnics." (Author/JM)

In industrialized countries lacking a tradition of valuing older adults, age-ism may increase, but only until old people become more youthful and the importance of age differentiations diminishes. (DB)

The relationship between power and knowledge is discussed, as it concerns the professoriate in higher education. Power and knowledge, it is argued, can vary independently. Although economic power influences faculty, they still possess considerable autonomy to shape education and to develop humanistic capacities of students. (PP)

Suggests that the biased image of Mexican-American women in current literature can be improved by: locating Mexican-American females in precise organizational context; distinguishing between macro- and microanalytical levels; separating social structural from cultural phenomena; and relating Mexican-American women's studies to general feminist…